Contact · Higden, Arkansas
One number. The owner on the end of it.
Ricky answers this himself (501) 259-7997There is no form on this page and no ticket to raise. Tell him what is on the floor and how big the room is, and the walkthrough gets booked while you are still on the call.
Free, no-obligation on-site quote.
After you dial
What actually happens when you call this number.
Two things go wrong with demo contractors before a tool ever runs: nobody calls you back, and the estimate never arrives. Here is the sequence in this business, in order, so you can hold it against what you get.
Ricky picks up
The owner, not a call centre and not an answering service. Nobody is taking a message to pass along to somebody who will decide later whether to ring you.
You describe the building
Square footage, what is on the floor, whether the place is occupied. Two minutes of talking is usually enough to know whether this is our lane.
The walkthrough gets booked
On site within two business days of that call. He looks at the layers, the transitions and the access before anybody talks price.
Written number, same day
In writing the day he walks it. Scope spelled out so you can see what is in it and what is not, and hand it to whoever signs.
The number holds
It does not move mid-job unless you change the scope in writing. That is the entire reason he walks the floor before he prices it.
Generally nothing up front
It depends on the job, but generally no money up front. The normal case is that you are not paying anything before the work starts.
Step one costs you nothing and takes about five minutes.
Call for a Walkthrough Free, no-obligation on-site quote.Before you dial
Seven things worth having in front of you.
None of it has to be exact and none of it is a gate — call anyway. But every one of these moves the number, and having them to hand turns a vague call into a booked walkthrough.
Rough square footage
Pace it out if you have to. A figure within ten percent is the difference between a ride-on scraper job and a crew on hand tools, and it is the first thing that shapes the price.
What is on the floor — and what is under it
VCT over black cutback mastic prices nothing like carpet, pad and tack strip. Tile over a mud bed is a different job to tile over thinset. If somebody poured self-leveler across old sheet vinyl to avoid dealing with it, say so. If you genuinely do not know what is down there, say that instead of guessing — he would rather find out at the walkthrough than be told wrong.
Whether the building is occupied
Tenants still trading changes the whole approach: containment, covered air returns, and where the dust is allowed to go. Say it on the first call, not on day one.
Which hours are actually workable
Nights, weekends, or a hard window between two trades. He works around an occupied building rather than asking you to empty it and eat the downtime, but the hours have to be in the number from the start.
Access
Loading dock or no dock. Lift or stairs. Door widths, corridor turns, and where a truck can sit. Load-out is half of this job — a second-floor suite with one passenger lift is a different price to a slab-on-grade warehouse with a roll-up door.
The date the next trade needs the slab
The floor sits on somebody's critical path, usually the flooring installer's. Give him the date the next sub is standing in that room and he will tell you straight whether it is workable.
Tear-out only, or a full strip-out
Just the floor covering, or walls, ceiling grid and tile, millwork and casework as well. If your architect drew it as demo scope, have the drawing open when you call — that is the scope we price.
Anything you already suspect
A building that went up before the 1980s, black mastic under the tile, a slab that has always been damp. Old vinyl tile and cutback mastic can contain asbestos, and the test is yours to arrange and pay for — it is not in our number. Better it is on the table at the first call than found halfway through.
Do not have half of it? Call anyway and describe the room. He has priced jobs off less.
Call (501) 259-7997On the phone
He walks it before he prices it.
You can get a ballpark out of most contractors in ninety seconds. You cannot get one out of this one, and that is deliberate.
A number written off a photo, a phone description or a set of drawings alone is a guess. A guess is what gets re-priced halfway through the week, when the mastic turns out to be worse than it looked or the tile has a mud bed under it. The walkthrough is what makes the number hold, and the number holding is the thing you are actually buying.
So the call is not where the price comes from. Here is exactly what the call is for.
- On the call: whether the job is in our lane at all, usually inside two minutes.
- On the call: a walkthrough date, booked while you are still on the phone.
- On the call: what the tear-out is likely to expose, from what you describe.
- On the call: what is in the number and what is not, said plainly before you commit to anything.
- Not on the call: a price. That comes in writing, the day he walks the floor.
- Not on the call: the asbestos test. The customer arranges it and pays for it; it is not in our number.
- Not on the call: dust cleanup past the work zone, unless you ask for it and it goes on the number.
- Not our lane: anything structural, anything load-bearing, anything needing a permit we did not price. He says so at the walkthrough rather than halfway through.
Ask for the number in writing and compare it line for line against whatever else you have.
Call for a WalkthroughAsked on the phone
Four things people ask before they hang up.
Answered here so you do not have to spend the call getting to them.
Can you not just give me a ballpark?
No, and it is the one thing he will not bend on. A number given off a description is a guess, and a guess is what gets re-priced on day three when the floor turns out to have two layers of glue under it.
What you get instead is a date. He is on site within two business days, and the written number lands the same day he walks it. That is a faster route to a real price than a ballpark that moves.
Do I have to pay something before you start?
Generally no money up front. It depends on the job — but the normal case is that you are not paying anything before the work starts.
The walkthrough and the written quote are free either way, and there is no obligation attached to either.
The building is old. What about asbestos?
Old vinyl tile and black cutback mastic can contain it, and in a building that went up before the 1980s that is a live possibility rather than a technicality.
The test is the customer's to arrange and the customer's to pay for. It is not in our number, and you should hear that on the first call rather than after a quote lands.
My town is not on your list. Do you come out this far?
Probably. The area is the whole state of Arkansas, plus the western half of Tennessee, and the town lists on this site are examples rather than limits.
If it is in Arkansas, or west of the Tennessee River, call and ask. The answer is usually yes, and it takes one question to find out.
Fifth question? Ask it on the phone. He would rather answer it now than on day three.
Call (501) 259-7997Where we work
All of Arkansas. The western half of Tennessee.
The truck loads in Higden, up by Greers Ferry. Little Rock is an hour and change, Memphis is a straight run east, and northwest Arkansas is a morning. We travel for commercial work — distance is a scheduling question, not a refusal.
Arkansas
Statewide
- Higden
- Heber Springs
- Greers Ferry
- Clinton
- Searcy
- Cabot
- Jacksonville
- North Little Rock
- Little Rock
- Conway
- Russellville
- Benton
- Bryant
- Hot Springs
- Pine Bluff
- El Dorado
- Texarkana
- Fort Smith
- Fayetteville
- Springdale
- Rogers
- Bentonville
- Harrison
- Mountain Home
- Batesville
- Jonesboro
- Paragould
- West Memphis
West Tennessee
Memphis and everything west of the river
- Memphis
- Bartlett
- Germantown
- Collierville
- Cordova
- Millington
- Arlington
- Covington
- Somerville
- Brownsville
- Ripley
- Jackson
- Dyersburg
- Union City
- Martin
- Humboldt
- Milan
- Trenton
Those lists are examples, not limits. The full picture is on the service areas page — and if your town is in Arkansas, or west of the Tennessee River, ask.
Call (501) 259-7997The postal address
Where the truck loads.
Superior Floor Demolition
(501) 259-7997 29 Mill Creek RdHigden, AR 72067
Owner-operated by Ricky Ray. Insured for general liability — the certificate goes to your office on request. About the company
That address is a yard, not a showroom. There is nothing to walk into and nobody at a front desk waiting on you — the work happens in your building, and so does the estimate. If you want somebody to look at your floor, he drives to it.
We do not publish office hours, because there is no office keeping them. What we will tell you is the part that matters: he answers his own phone, and the walkthrough happens within two business days of the call.
Everything else — the scope, the number, what is in it and what is not — comes in writing the day he stands in the room.
Free, no-obligation on-site quote.
What you are calling about
Three jobs this number gets dialled for.
If you want the detail before you ring, it is written down.
Floor demolition
Tile and thinset, VCT and cutback mastic, glue-down and nail-down hardwood, carpet with pad and tack strip, epoxy coatings, terrazzo, quarry tile, self-leveler and gypcrete. Ground back to a slab your installer can work on the day he arrives.
See what we tear out →Interior demolition
Non-structural walls, ceiling grid and tile, millwork and casework, restroom and kitchen strip-outs, fixtures and old equipment. Retail and office buildouts taken back to shell condition, debris loaded out and hauled off.
See what we tear out →Occupied buildings
Containment goes up and the tenants on the other side of it keep trading. Air returns covered before anything comes down, night and weekend work when the space cannot lose a business day.
How we work around tenantsNot sure which one it is? Describe the building on the phone. That is usually a two-minute conversation.
Call (501) 259-7997
Next step
Tell him what is on the floor.
Five minutes on the phone, a walkthrough inside two business days, and a written number the same day he walks it. No form to fill in, no obligation, and nobody chasing you afterwards.
Free, no-obligation on-site quote.
Ricky answers (501) 259-7997